“As someone called Anonymous once said, 'You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk-dancing.”

“A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.”

“You feel like butter," he whispered, "and velvet.”

“Frankly, you're the most homeless person--emotionally--I ever met.”

“The crowd screamed, and in the same instant the band whammed into "Lady" like a desperate man into a ten-dollar prostitute.”

“He sat up, his chest moving, his mouth open as if he'd run the annual San Francisco Bay to Breakers race in record time instead of, as the event intended, having fun.”

“Though little had actually happened to Susannah the car smelled of lovemaking.”